ANOTHER "VICTORY"
We hope that we will never know what else was "touched" by the wreckage of the downed UAV and that it was burning so violently there - the object, after all, is top-secret.

* ... Falling out a window is not an uncommon cause of death for public figures in Russia. Some of the most suspicious cases include: Alexey Stroganov, a prominent member of Solidarity, a Russian opposition party..., Vadim Godlevsky, a magazine publisher..., A Russian Interior Ministry general, Boris Kolesnikov..., An unnamed criminal suspect of Central Asian origin..., Igor Vakhnenko, a businessman..., Ivan Safronov, an investigative reporter with Kommersant newspaper..., ...

“Throwing themselves of the windows of investigative offices and dying is a more common thing in Russia than you can imagine,” Russian investigative journalist Orkhan Jemal said, with a note of sarcasm. “We have had cases in which suspects managed to jump out of completely sealed, barred windows, and even cases in which the suspects suffered multiple lethal injuries from falling out of first floor windows.” ...

The deadliest threat to Russia’s oligarchs this year? Heights.

At least eight businessmen have died from falls in 2022, variously tumbling down stairs, off boats, over balconies and out of windows.

The latest to succumb to a bout of fatal vertigo is Pavel Antov, a Moscow-born politician and mogul nicknamed Russia’s “sausage king” for founding meat producer Vladimirsky Standart.
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The sheer number of similar deaths involving Russian oligarchs this year is remarkable, so much so that the phenomenon has garnered its own Wikipedia entry: ‘2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths.’ There are 21 names on the grim list so far - almost two deaths a month.

Authorities insist there is no foul play. A spate of depression, heart disease and sheer bad luck has beset Russia’s executive class, we are assured.

But it should not be overlooked that many of the men on the list had publicly criticised the war in Ukraine.
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When Dan Rapoport, another critic of the war, fell to his death from a luxury apartment building in Washington DC in August, campaigner Bill Browder called the circumstances “extremely suspicious.” He should know - he’s been warning about the dangers of doing business in Russia for more than a decade.
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In the summer of 1921, during one of the worst famines in history, Vladimir Lenin, head of the new Soviet government, along with Maxim Gorky, appealed in an open letter to "all honest European and American people", to "give bread and medicine". In an open letter to all nations, dated 13 July 1921, Gorky described the crop failure which had brought his country to the brink of starvation. Herbert Hoover, who would later become the U.S. President, responded immediately, and negotiations with Russia took place at the Latvian capital, Riga. A European effort was led by the famous Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen through the International Committee for Russian Relief (ICRR).

At the same time he tried to tackle the urgent problem of famine in Russia; following a widespread failure of crops around 30million people were threatened with starvation and death. Despite Nansen's pleas on behalf of the starving, Russia's revolutionary government was feared and distrusted internationally, and the League was reluctant to come to its peoples' aid. Nansen had to rely largely on fundraising from private organisations, and his efforts met with limited success.

A major problem impeding Nansen's work on behalf of refugees was that most of them lacked documentary proof of identity or nationality. Without legal status in their country of refuge, their lack of papers meant they were unable to go anywhere else. To overcome this, Nansen devised a document that became known as the "Nansen passport", a form of identity for stateless persons that was in time recognised by more than 50governments, and which allowed refugees to cross borders legally. Although the passport was created initially for refugees from Russia, it was extended to cover other groups.

While attending the Conference of Lausanne in November 1922, Nansen learned that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1922. The citation referred to "his work for the repatriation of the prisoners of war, his work for the Russian refugees, his work to bring seccour to the millions of Russians afflicted by famine, and finally his present work for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace".

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